Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 27/08/1952 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Lt A.E. Facer RN, Naval Aviation Flight RAE TP |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Sea Venom NF Mk 20 WK376 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Following three catapult launches, pilot received permission for low pass over airfield |
| Incident location | Frimley Green, Hampshire |
| Incident details | During this pass the manually-operated elevator trim tab detached, followed by the spring tab and then one of the rudders. The aircraft dived steeply to the ground |